Libby Fischer Hellmann

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2002
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Bitter Veil

0.5 - War Secrets (May-2015)
1 - A Bitter Veil (Apr-2012)

Ellie Foreman

0.5 - The Day Miriam Hirsch Disappeared (May-2012)
1 - An Eye for Murder (Nov-2002)
2 - Picture of Guilt (Jun-2003)
3 - Image of Death (Sep-2003)
4 - A Shot to Die for (Aug-2005)
5 - Jump Cut (Mar-2016)
The Murder of Katie Boyle (Dec-2012)

A Georgia Davis Mystery

0.5 - Toxicity (Oct-2011)
1 - Easy Innocence (Apr-2008)
2 - Doubleback (Oct-2009)
4 - Nobody's Child (Aug-2014)
5 - High Crimes (Nov-2018)
The Murder of Katie Boyle (Dec-2012)

Nice Girl Does Noir

1 - Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 1 (Mar-2011)
2 - Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 2 (Mar-2011)

Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • An Eye for Murder

    Ellie Foreman - 1

    In a small boarding house in a quiet area of Chicago, an elderly man has passed away with little more than the name and number of one Ellie Foreman in his coat pocket. When contacted, Ellie racks her brain for answers, but she has no apparent connect...

  • Picture of Guilt

    Ellie Foreman - 2

    The highly publicized murder trial of Johnnie Santoro has got all of Chicago betting on a quick guilty verdict. But Ellie Foreman is busy trying to remember where she's seen the perp before. When she pores through some of her video outtakes, Ellie fi...

  • Image of Death

    Ellie Foreman - 3

    Lately, Ellie Foreman has been doing more than her fair share of schmoozing. Chicago heiress and real estate developer Ricki Feldman is, for less-than-altruistic reasons, financing her next video project, a documentary on foster kids. So, after a ful...

  • A Shot to Die for

    Ellie Foreman - 4

    Returning from a video shoot at "The Lodge," a newly renovated Lake Geneva resort, Ellie Foreman befriends a woman who claims that her ride abandoned her at a roadside rest stop. But Ellie's kindness is brutally cut short when a mirror-windowed van p...

  • A Berlin Story

    in Show Business Is Murder

    Lights...Camera...Murder! Behind the velvet ropes and closed curtains, buried in the back lots, you'll find the darker side of the spotlight. It's where stars are created overnight, and burn out just cis quickly. Where deals are made to be broken,...

  • Easy Innocence

    A Georgia Davis Mystery - 1

    When pretty, smart Sara Long is found bludgeoned to death, it's easy to blame the man with the bat. But Georgia Davis -- former cop and newly-minted PI -- is hired to look into the incident at the behest of the accused's sister, and what she find...

  • Doubleback

    A Georgia Davis Mystery - 2

    Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she's returned, apparently unharmed. Molly's mother, Chris, is so grateful to have her daughter back that she s willing to overlook the odd circumstances.

    A few day...

  • The Last Radical

  • Set the Night on Fire

    Someone is trying to kill Lila Hilliard. During the Christmas holidays she returns from running errands to find her family home in flames, her father and brother trapped inside. Later, she is attacked by a mysterious man on a motorcycle. . . an...



  • Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 1

    Nice Girl Does Noir - 1

    With a Foreword by William Kent Krueger:Short stories are the poetry of prose. They are precise, cut to the bone, every word a necessity. Not many authors develop that control. Libby Fischer Hellmann has the hand of a master. The stories in this firs...

  • Nice Girl Does Noir, Vol. 2

    Nice Girl Does Noir - 2

    Foreword by Joe Konrath: To read Libby Fischer Hellmann is to love Libby Fischer Hellmann. Her writing is tight, fast, and highly entertaining. But I had no idea Libby was so versatile. My first inkling of this came a few years ago, when I asked he...

  • Nice Girl Does Noir

    A collection of 15 crime fiction short stories in print., some of them award-winners, by author Libby Fischer Hellmann. The collection is divided into two parts: The Ellie Foreman/Georgia Davis stories (5) and Chicago Then and Now; Other Places, Othe...

  • The Last Page

    “A funny, smart mystery that respects life in the library… a can’t miss read…” Amy Alessio, Librarian and AuthorBarbara Adams, head of the Windbrook Library in suburban Chicago, has died, apparently from a fall down the stairs of the libra...

  • Toxicity

    A Georgia Davis Mystery - 0.5

    A prequel to Libby Fischer Hellman’s Georgia Davis PI series There’s an inventive killer at large in Chicago in this dark thriller and police procedural from best-selling crime writer Libby Fischer Hellmann. When three bodies turn up in rapid suc...

  • A Bitter Veil

    Bitter Veil - 1

    A gripping literary thriller set against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution

    It all began with a line of Persian poetry...
    Anna and Nouri, both studying in Chicago, fall in love...

  • The Day Miriam Hirsch Disappeared

    Ellie Foreman - 0.5

    In 1938 sixteen year old Jake Foreman spends his free time with his friend Barney Teitleman in Lawndale, a prosperous Jewish community on Chicago’s near west side. Jake develops a crush on Miriam Hirsch, an actress in the Yiddish theater who lives ...

  • Flight

    This short story was "born" at the "You Done It" workshop conducted at the 2012 Chicago Romantic Times Convention. Authors Libby Hellmann, Laura Caldwell, and Michael Allen Dymmoch, members of The Outfit Collective (http://theoutfitcollective.blogspo...

  • The Murder of Katie Boyle

    A Georgia Davis Mystery
    Ellie Foreman

    My novel, DOUBLEBACK,(Octover 2009) features both Ellie Foreman and Georgia Davis as co-protagonists, and I’m often asked how they originally met. Georgia made an appearance in A PICTURE OF GUILT, and then more substantively in AN IMAGE OF DEATH, b...

  • House Rules



  • Josef's Angel

    Did a little boy actually see an Angel in a children’s war camp in Germany? Did that angel save his life? What about the ramifications twenty years later? JOSEF’S ANGEL is a short story that begins during World War Two but jumps to Chicago in the...

  • Detour

    This story was written for my friend Joe Konrath’s anthology, THESE GUNS FOR HIRE (Bleak House, 2007). As he said in the introduction, this was one of my first attempts at writing hard boiled, and I found it liberating. In fact, it pushed me in an...

  • Dumber Than Dirt

    This story was first published in 2000 in Blue Murder Magazine, which has since disappeared. It was reprinted in Twilight Tales' BLOOD AND DOUGHNUTS, and most recently in the ONCE UPON A CRIME ANTHOLOGY edited by Gary Bush. An "only in Chicago" story...

  • High Yellow

    If you're a fan of THE HELP and you like dark crime fiction, you'll like this story. I grew up in Washington, DC, and I always wanted to set a story there. For some reason, it never quite worked until now. HIGH YELLOW remains one of my favorites,...

  • The Rainforest Messiah

    This was originally published in the WORLD WIDE WRITERS Magazine, (UK, November, 2000). It was republished in the webzine, Mysterical-E, in January 2001, and was voted one of the best five stories of that year. It was one of the first stories I w...

  • The Whole World Is Watching

    This story was written and published in the SISTERS ON THE CASE anthology edited by Sara Paretsky (Signet, 2007). I originally wrote this as an exercise in preparation for SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE, a thriller that takes place - in part - during the...

  • Havana Lost

    On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the US, reso...

  • Your Sweet Man

    My contribution to CHICAGO BLUES (Bleak House, 2007) was way out of my comfort zone, but that's what I loved about writing short stories. They allow me to stretch and experiment with different characters, plots, eras, and settings. This story is abou...

  • Killer Femmes

    Who can resist 5 suspenseful crime novels with unique exotic settings. all written by award-winning, best-selling authors. and best of all, the complete set is only 99 cents. for a limited time? We couldn't, so we created the Killer Femmes Boxed Set....

  • Nobody's Child

    A Georgia Davis Mystery - 4

    A bloodstained note left for PI Georgia Davis reveals the shocking existence of a half-sister she never knew about. Her sister, Savannah, is pregnant and begging for Georgia’s help. Determined to track her down, Georgia finds herself heading deep i...



  • Chicago Blues

  • Capital Partners

    This short story was originally published in the Writes of Spring Anthology, Nodin Press, 2012, edited by Pat Frovarp and Gary Shulze. The story is about two women whose husbands are caught in a Ponzi scheme and take matters into their own hands."A f...

  • War Secrets

    Bitter Veil - 0.5

    When I wrote my literary thriller, A BITTER VEIL, I intentionally left a loose end in the story. (It happens almost at the end of the novel). That unexplained plot point is explained in "War Secrets". The story takes place in the 1930s in Leipzig, Ge...

  • The Incidental Spy

    Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets ...

  • A Taste of Noir - Volume 1

    A Taste of Noir: Volume 1 includes four short stories from the collection Nice Girl Does Noir by award-winning crime fiction author Libby Fischer Hellmann. The stories in Taste, Volume 1 include:“Detour”This story, about a hit woman who takes ...

  • A Taste of Noir - Volume 2

    A Taste of Noir  includes four short stories from the collection Nice Girl Does Noir by award-winning crime fiction author Libby Fischer Hellmann. The stories in Taste, Volume 2 include:Your Sweet ManMy contribution to CHICAGO BLU...

  • A Taste of Noir - Volume 3

    A Taste of Noir includes four short stories from the collection Nice Girl Does Noir by award-winning crime fiction author Libby Fischer Hellmann. The stories in Taste, Volume 3 include:'A Berlin Story'This story first appeared in the SHOW BUSINES...

  • A Taste of Noir - Volume 4

    Josef's AngelThis story begins during World War Two but jumps to Chicago in the 1970's. The plot and characters surprised me; I didn't know it would turn out the way it did. Happily, that's one of the joys of writing crime fiction. JOSEF'S ANGEL was ...

  • Jump Cut

    Ellie Foreman - 5

    Chicago video producer Ellie Foreman has been absent from thriller author Libby Fischer Hellmann's repertoire for almost a decade. Now, in Jump Cut, she's back...and is soon entangled in a web of espionage, murder, and suspicion that threatens to des...

  • War, Spies, and Bobby Sox

    As World War II rages across Europe and the Pacific, its impact ripples through communities in the heartland of America. A farm girl is locked in a dangerous love triangle with two Germans soldiers held in an Illinois POW camp ... Another German, a w...



  • High Crimes

    A Georgia Davis Mystery - 5

    How do you solve a murder when there are 42,000 suspects? That’s the task facing Chicago PI Georgia Davis, hired to hunt down those behind the assassination of Resistance leader Dena Baldwin at a demonstration fourteen months after the 2016 electio...

  • Virtually Undetectable

    This book was originally published as part of the High-Tech Crime Solvers series in 2020. But it also is an Ellie Foreman mystery. The text is identical between versions. Enjoy!Trawling through the lawless corners of the dark internet is the last thi...

  • No Good Deed

  • A Bend In The River

    In 1968 two young Vietnamese sisters flee to Saigon after their village on the Mekong River is attacked by American forces and burned to the ground. The sole survivors of the brutal massacre that killed their family, the sisters struggle to survive b...

  • Common Scents

  • A Winter's Tale

  • DoubleBlind

    With little work during the pandemic, Chicago PI Georgia Davis agrees to help the best friend of fellow sleuth, Ellie Foreman. Susan Siler's aunt died suddenly after her Covid booster, and Susan's distraught mother wants the death investigated. Howev...

  • Max's War

    As the Nazis sweep across Europe, Jewish teen Max and his parents flee German persecution to Holland, where Max finds friends and a life-altering romance. But when Hitler invades in 1940, Max escapes to Chicago, leaving his parents and friends behind...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Libby Fischer Hellmann has published 47 books.

Libby Fischer Hellmann does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Max's War, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Libby Fischer Hellmann, An Eye for Murder, was published in November 2002.

Yes. Libby Fischer Hellmann has 4 series.
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